| Description | Includes tables of the rates for Government Life Annuities, and a form for their purchase; advertisement for publication entitled "Anecdotes of a Fringed Petticoat and a Pair of Bath Garters'; advertisement for an astrologer in King Street, Bristol (1769); a list of the directors and guardians of the poor in the parish of St MaryleBone; prospectus for Westminster Literary Society for conducting a subscription library 'on a broad and liberal basis', advertisement for medicines sold by N Thurston, from Bristol now residing at Plymouth Dock; a scheme of music for the Wood-house concert (1771); proposals for publishing a map of Ireland by Rev Daniel Augustus Beaufort (1787); lines addressed to Thomas Hope Esq on reading the gross misinterpretation of his elegant publication in the Edinburgh Review; proof sheet of type settings; letter from Sir Francis Philip to Earl Grey, London, 1814; proposals for printing by subscription a History of Bristol, by William Barrett (1788); list of charts and plans of ports published by Alexander Dalrymple (1783); advertisements for panorama paintings of battles at sea, of Paris, Rome and Edinburgh; descriptions of the spas at Melksham and Cheltenham. |